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Xenophobic attacks hit back

Date: Apr 17, 2015

Xenophobic attacks hit back

South African engineers working on mines and at a gas plant in Mozambique have been taken to secure camps after threats of reprisal xenophobic attacks.

They were evacuated from their workplaces as several countries begin demanding answers from the South African government about the attacks on their citizens.

Mozambicans, Malawians, Zimbabweans, Somalis and Congolese nationals have borne the brunt of xenophobic violence, which broke out in Durban three weeks ago before spreading to Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg.

At least five people have been killed and thousands displaced in a surge of violence and looting.

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